Henry Kissinger Quotes
Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between major powers would be a catastrophe for which there is no compensation in anything you can gain.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.
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For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
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'Did they program brattiness into you?''That’s a trait I developed for myself,' she said. 'Do you like it?'
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I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So I played baseball, basketball, football, ran track, and played golf.
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90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
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I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.
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I don't know what'll ever happen if I'm in a healthy relationship. My writing career will go down the tubes.
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The Undertaker's beaten me down pretty bad quite a few times.
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Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between major powers would be a catastrophe for which there is no compensation in anything you can gain.
